During The Indian Runner's casting process, Penn sought after close friends and family for the lead characters, including Dennis Hopper and his mother, Eileen Ryan. Bronson’s wife and actor Jill ...
Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.